
„So wie sie meine Leute im Süden behandeln, kann die Regierung zur Hölle gehen.“
Letzte Worte, 31. März 1850
Original engl.: "The South! The poor South! God knows what will become of her."
„So wie sie meine Leute im Süden behandeln, kann die Regierung zur Hölle gehen.“
DIE ZEIT Nr. 31, 25. Juli 1997 http://www.zeit.de/1997/31/wowos.txt.19970725.xml
Über die Entstehung der Ku-Klux-Klan nach dem Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg 1865
(Original englisch: ”The white men of the South were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation to rid themselves, by fair means or foul, of the intolerable burden of governments sustained by the votes of ignorant negroes and conducted in the interest of adventurers; […]“) – Band V: Reunion and Nationalization, S. 58
Der Staat (The State, 1893), A History of the American People (1901)
(Original englisch: ”Every country-side wished to have its own Ku Klux, founded in secrecy and mystery like the mother ‘Den’ at Pulaski, until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, an ‘Invisible Empire of the South’, bound together in loose organization to protect the southern country from some of the ugliest hazards of a time of revolution.“) – Band V: Reunion and Nationalization, S. 60
Der Staat (The State, 1893), A History of the American People (1901)